Photos, Stories and Scrapbooking

My photographs often look grainy/noisy whenever I increase my camera’s ISO while maintaining an aperture of f/5.6 and a shutter speed fast enough to capture an active preschooler in a low light situation. As I was placing these two photos on a new blank 24×12 inch document in Photoshop, I thought about that grainy quality. Since my granddaughter was playing with some superhero comic figures in one of the photos, I decided to use a plug-in for Photoshop, Topaz Clean, to give the photos a cartoon or comic effect before I blended them together to create the background for my page.

I liked the effect on the large photos so much that I gave the smaller photos the same effect with the plug-in before clipping them to the small frames included with the template.

To finish this page, I recolored some of the stains that were also included with the template, added some artsy transfers and elements from ArtPlay Palette Euphoria and created a title with Photoshop’s custom shape tool to mimic the word pieces with which my granddaughter played.

My page is finished, but I’m still thinking about what more I can do with the settings on my camera to improve the quality of my low light photos. I know my granddaughter is going to want to go back to the museum when she sees the photos on this page.